@ExtAnimal
Ridiculous? You miss the point – the British slang expression is precisely *why* it’s called that! See the Linus quote on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software) “I’m an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.”
Although, I personally prefer the theory that it was a dig at Andrew Tridgell, who got the kernel developers’ BitKeeper license revoked by “reverse engineering” the protocols in order to develop an open source client…